Monday, December 10, 2012

Snow Pretty Much Every Day

Hey Mom!

Well, this week was kind of a bummer. Most of our appointments fell out and
we didn´t have a lot to do other than clean up our area book. This week was kind
of bad for our whole zone. I think a big reason is because it is starting to
snow pretty much every day now and people are having problems getting around or
don´t want to go outside because of the weather. The buses also fall out
sometimes or come late, so this is just the start of what could be a long
winter.

On Monday, we met with a less-active member and talked with
him about answering life´s questions through the Book of Mormon. We spent the
rest of the day getting groceries and cleaning the apartment, and then getting
some peace and rest. Tuesday we met with Bruder Olbert again in the old people´s
home like we do every week, and that was good. We also had a really good
district meeting, which was great. On Wednesday, we met with an older sister in our
ward at a Chinese buffet, which was good, and later on, we met with one of our investigators in the Auslanderheim.
He is the only one who lives there that can speak decent German, so when we were
about to start teaching him, he got a call from another guy in the Auslanderheim
and went to go help him clean up some legal stuff. He told us to wait for him,
which we did for about 20 minutes until we went to check what was taking so
long. We found the room where our investigator was and the guy in there likes us but
doesn´t speak a lick of German, but made us sit down and listen to what was
going on. There were two older German ladies there who worked for the government
who were telling him he would have to leave the country since he didn´t have any
documents, and our investigator was translating for him and we ended up not being able to
go for about another hour.

Thursday was supposed to be our day where we met with
our two main investigators, even though we had only met with them once up to
this point. Both appointments fell out for various reasons. Then later that day, we had a split with Düsseldorf, where I
went to Düsseldorf to work with Elder Sommerville for a day. Most of what we did
on the split consisted of contacting people and making sure the new apartment
was ready for the new Senior Couple who will be joining the district, which I am
really excited about. We also thought we were going to be getting GPSs for our
area, as well as a white board, which we need pretty badly, and they didn´t get
brought up so we now won´t get them until Friday this week. On Saturday, we did our weekly planning and met with
Bruder Köster, which is always good. After church on Sunday we had to wait for 2 hours
for a ride from the bishop to Remscheid. The ward has been practicing their
Christmas program after church, and it takes forever and ever every time. Once
we finally got there, we met with The Glosnickis, who are recently married and
have a new baby, and they told us about their lives. They
are cool people, and had really interesting stories. Besides
all of that stuff for the week, we spent a lot of time rewriting the records in
our area book because the previous missionaries wrote it really poorly and it is
pretty hard to read. We will have to do a lot of that this week, as well
as entering a ton of information into the GPS, which will take quite a bit of
time.

Anyway, that is all for this week. I hope you guys have a good week and
that everything runs smooth for the holiday/wedding season! Love you!